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Journal Article
The Twelve Months in the Second Year of the Republican Calendar, 1793-94
2017
Overview
As part of a series of articles offering information on prints and drawings acquired by the Rijks Museum, these 11 engravings by Salvatore Tresca after Louis Lafitte are discussed. The Twelve Months in the Second Year of the Republican Calendar by Salvatore Tresca were made as illustrations for the Republican calendar, a replacement for the Gregorian calendar that was used from 1793 to 1806 and for a short period in 1871. The year was divided up differently and the months were given new names based on the French climate or associated with agriculture and horticulture. After the French Revolution, the Republicans wanted to turn their backs on the ancient regime. Imagery was consequently no longer dominated by religion and politics, but rather by nature as the symbol of the bright, harmonious future that the French people could look forward to under the new regime.
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Rijksmuseum
